Achieving quality in natural language requirements
Federico Fabbrini, Mario Fusani, Vincenzo Gervasi, Stefania Gnesi, Salvatore Ruggieri · 1998
We present a proposal of a quality model for natural language requirements that concentrates on linguistic properties of requirements documents. We deploy the quality framework of Krogstie et al. as a superordinate rationale supporting the design of a quality model. At the same time, the quality model is intended to cover and classify the corpus of linguistic techniques proposed in the literature for the analysis of requirements. As a result, we have identied a number of factors and criteria that aect the overall linguistic quality of requirements documents. Our model can thus be used to choose the most appropriate techniques to apply in order to reach a desired quality level. Keywords: Natural Language Requirements, Quality Models, Linguistic Analysis. 1 Introduction Quality in software engineering is following, to some extent, the same historical path as quality in classical engineering has. Many methods and tools have been proposed in the past to achieve some specic ...